Swimming to Cambodia
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 28, 2013
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Shout Factory Theatr
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spalding Gray | |
Directed by | Jonathan Demme | |
Edited by | Carol Littleton | |
Screenwriting by | Spalding Gray | |
Composition by | Laurie Anderson | |
Director of Photography: | John Bailey |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is both drama at its most entertaining -- and an enlightening peronal lesson in the history of America's involvement in Cambodia during the Vietnam era.
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United Press International
Rating: 5/5 --
Gray pulls together genocide, pleasure-seeking, military paranoia, filmmaking, and even an anecdote about rude neighbors to paint a coherent portrait of aggression.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: A- --
A spellbinding witty rant.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Gray is never too far from reminding you of your own self-indulgence, and that he also knows how he sounds.
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Examiner.com
...Audacious and vastly entertaining....SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA is soaring, unsparing and brilliantly observed. It is also a comment on the power of storytelling...
Los Angeles Times
...Gray's feature-length monologue brings people, places and things so vibrantly to life that they're very nearly visible on the screen....[Demme] remains the American commerical cinema's most reliable and direct link to the avant-garde...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Like a good preacher, some of [Gray's] power comes from the sheer virtuosity of his speech.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) established his mastery of "filmed performance" with TALKING HEADS--STOP MAKING SENSE. Here he captures the urgency, terror, humor and brilliance of single performer-- Spalding Gray, who stays seated behind a table at New York's Soho Performing Garage in 1987 for an intense monologue. Gray uses his experiences in Thailand filming the 1984 Academy Award winning film THE KILLING FIELDS as a springboard for all sorts of hilarious, moving digressions, notably a concise and bone-chilling history of Cambodia, and the mass murders brought about by Pol-Pot in the 1970's. There's also Gray's quest for "the perfect moment," a spiritual pursuit that involves drugs, detailed descriptions of the Bangkok brothels, and the apprehension involved in trying to memorize lines for the film. Fellow performance artist Laurie Anderson composed the background music, which along with the ingenious lighting and ambient sound effects perfectly accents Gray's delivery. Demme has crafted a brilliant film of a brilliant performer, infusing the proceedings with a real magnetic urgency, making it hard to look away even for an instant.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 66,123
- UPC: 826663140071
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